Construction of Girth 8 LDPC Codes based on Multidimensional Finite Lattices
John Craddock, Mark F. Flanagan, Stephen James Redmond, Anthony Fagan · Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications/IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications · 2007
This paper presents a novel method for constructing low density parity check (LDPC) codes with a girth of up to 8. These codes are based on the structural properties of finite lattices. Results are presented which show that these codes perform well over AWGN channels with iterative decoding.